Lifestyle Tradie Magazine Edition #50

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From a one man show in September 2016, SA Drains now has a total of 10 employees

SIMON MUCHA SA Drains - VIP Diamond Member

Cool iPhone Apps for Tradies

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FROM THE DESK OF Hello there…

Welcome to another edition of the Lifestyle Tradie Magazine… not just any edition, but the 50th Edition! Can you believe it! How time flies…

I want to take this opportunity to have a quick chat about life plans.

Whilst business is everything to us small business owners, the reality is, that more often than not we put the business before our very own freedom (often contrary to why we got in business in the first place!).

This last month I have been lucky enough to live out one of my lifelong goals with my son, Isaac.

We went to the Soccer World Cup in Russia and it was incredible, not just because there was an electric atmosphere and it was amazing to experience a new country, but because I had finally done

something that I have wanted to do for my entire life!

It made me realise that, while yes you need to work hard and make your business everything you want it to be, you also have to live and experience life…because you only get one!

So, what are you doing this year to gain a new experience, or kick a goal you have always wanted to achieve.

Speaking of kicking goals, we have a great member of the month story for you this month. Simon from SA Drains in Adelaide has

grown from a one man show in 2016 to a company of 10 employees currently…and continuing to grow! You can read all about it on Page 6.

PLUS there is so much more in this latest edition of the Lifestyle Tradie Magazine.

To your success,

Andy Smith

P.s. Looking forward to catching up and hanging with all of our members at the upcoming Lifestyle Tradie R&R on the Gold Coast in a couple weeks time!...Check out our speakers on page 8.

WE’VE DONE IT!

#1 Educational Service in Australia 2018

We are SUPER proud to have been crowned #1 Educational Service in Australia for 2018 at the Australian Small Business Champion Awards in Sydney in front of over 1200 other Australian small business owners.

Helping tradies, just like you, is what we are most passionate about and it is a great privilege to be recognised on the national stage.

We want to take this opportunity to say a massive THANK YOU to you…Thank you for your continued support and driving us to deliver more and more every year.

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CONTENTS 04 Love

18 Next Level Tradie

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06 Lifestyle Tradie Member

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Help Your Tradies Succeed In Sales

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10 Techy tools To Help You Get More Instagram Followers

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Money = Happiness

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When It Comes To Success, Confrontation Is Key!

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Non-Newsletter Emails, and Why You NEED To Be Sending Them

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6 Ways To Make YouTube More…YOU

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The Latest From My Mancave

Profile – SA Drains

10 6 Ways To Get Out Of A Slump

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Our Next Event Reignite & Reunite

23 Apps For Tradies

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LOVE RULES

Can Actually ip sh n o ti la e R A In g Why Bein Owner… ss e n si u B e d a Tr r e tt e Make You A B

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f you’re wanting your trade business to improve, your success could very well be found in a healthy relationship.

A happy relationship could actually be the thing that changes your business and personal life for the better.

In our pursuit of success and growth in our trade business, it’s easy to forget about the need to give attention to the most important relationships in our lives… our personal ones.

Focusing constantly on work, putting in more hours to seemingly get better results, is not always the outcome.

Various studies have shown that statistically married men make more money, work harder, and even live longer.

As too for women, if they’re in healthy marriages, have better heart health, are less likely to get breast cancer, have diminished anxiety and experience a better social life.

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All key elements to ensuring that you perform better.

If you’ve been struggling to be productive at work, been challenged to be the best leader possible and want more growth in your business, maybe it’s time you look at your love life:

Being Married Helps You Earn More Money The statistics are clear: Marriage and income are strongly correlated. According to the research, one of the biggest reasons why married people are more productive and make money is because they have a partner pushing them. We can tell ourselves we’ll do something and not do it, but when we commit to someone else, we feel obligated.

Your negotiations aren’t just about little old you, they’re about your family. There is much more to your ‘purpose’ in my work, your prices and the commitment to performing with excellence.

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Being Married Helps You Make Smarter Decisions When you do it alone, you only get your insights, ideas, and decisions. When you do it with your partner, you also get there’s. You essentially double your insights. Reports state that one of the critical factors of self-made millionaires is that they chose a spouse who is smart with money.

Being Married Gives You Another Set Of Eyes You’ve heard the saying, “Measure twice, cut once.” As a tradesman, you would know that this is especially the case as, you do it wrong and it could cost you thousands of dollars on the job. Check and double check. While advice is solid, even better is to get an extra set of eyes… especially if you’re prone to impulsiveness, get your other half to put their eye over things, and help out with those crucial decisions.

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As trade business owners, we’ve all learnt that success isn’t always a straight path. But it’s also good to remember, that everything in your life impacts everything else. And while your relationship, even if not directly linked to your business, can be the game changer to making you a happier and possibly more wealthy person.

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MEMBER PROFILE Simon Mucha SA Drains

VIP Diamond Member From a one man show in September 2016, SA Drains now has a total of 10 employees.

1. Tell Us A Little About Your Business, Life And Family.

SA Drains began in September 2016 and since then I have not looked back. We are a plumbing and drain clearing business which specialises in permanent drain solutions, pipe relining in particular. I enjoy everyday that I am at work…I don’t look at it as being a job.

Something that is very important to me is health and vitality along with structure and routine. Keeping healthy by going to the gym every morning with my brother Martin is something that I prioritise every day. I find that it is the best way to start my day.

Family is also important to me, I believe it is the most important aspect of my life!

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2. What Do You Love Most About What You Do? I love seeing my employees develop their skills and grow professionally as well as personally. It is rewarding to watch. An employee of mine came into the business as a plumber with a commercial background with little to no sales skills. Over the time he has been employed with SA Drains he has turned out to be our best sales rep! He’s amazing and a great addition to the SA Drains team!

3. Tell Us A Little About Your Life Before Joining Lifestyle Tradie? (What Wasn’t Working, What Was Holding You Back Or Was In Your Way?) Before joining Lifestyle Tradie I was a one-man band working insane hours and running around like a headless chook! I was working from an old school diary (pen and paper). I quickly realised that I couldn’t go on running a business like this. There would be no progress and the business would not be scalable. It was at that point when I came across Andy and Ange at Lifestyle Tradie.

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4. What Specific Results Have You Achieved Since Joining Lifestyle Tradie?

12 million dollars. This will enable me to focus on building my investment portfolio.

6. What Are The Top 3 Things You Have Learnt About One of the biggest changes Business That You Would Recommend To Other since joining Lifestyle Tradie Tradies And Why? in 2016 is the structure of the business. I am no longer running a paper diary. We have implemented a cloud-based CRM system (AroFlo) meaning that the business is scalable and no longer dependent on me and my diary!

In addition to this there is structure in the way we operate the entire business which has allowed for significant growth.

From a one man show in September 2016, SA Drains now has a total of 10 employees (8 tradies on the road and 2 staff in the office) I have learnt that it is important to have structure in both life and business. It creates consistency and ensures everything goes to plan.

Tip 1: Be adaptable. Everything can change in an instant its important to be fit and able to deal with any situation thrown your way.

Tip 2: Be a good leader. It’s important to have respect for your staff and in return they will respect you. Be empathetic and listen to their needs.

Tip 3: Systems. Ensure your business is running with the correct systems in place. Systems remove chaos and employees feel more comfortable when they know exactly what is expected of them.

I have also realised the benefit of having a mentor. You simply can’t learn everything by yourself. Being part of the Lifestyle Tradie membership has connected me to a wide 7. Tell Us Something Quirky About Yourself That Your range of useful sources of Buddies Don’t Know? knowledge.

I gave up alcohol as a New Years resolution between 2016/2017.

5. Where Do You See Most people know this, but do not know why! This was due to a Your Business In 5 Years? wild night out in Kuta, Bali that ended in a nudie run through the main strip.

In 5 years’ time SA Drain’s will be completely managed 8. If We Were Sitting Here One Year From Now by employees so I can be Celebrating What A Great Year It’s Been, What Have less present in the day-to- You Achieved? (Business/Life). day running of it. I will have diversified the business to I will be fit, healthy and happy! The business will be at a point include plumbing, electrical, where structurally I am less involved in the day to day running. heating and cooling and will As a result, I will have the freedom to spend more time with my be generating a revenue of family and friends.

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Our Next Event

ReIgnite & ReUnite

ENERGISE. EXPAND. EXPLORE. Friday 27th July and Saturday 28th July 2018 QT Gold Coast

It is only a couple of weeks until we are at the QT on the beautiful, sunny Gold Coast!

WE CANNOT WAIT! Our guest speakers, Grant Herbert and Jet Xavier are geared up and ready to go too!

Grant Herbert As an international Keynote Speaker, Grant helps everyone to recognise the mindsets and behaviours that are sabotaging business and personal goals by sharing his own experience as a struggling leader in several defence and corporate senior leadership positions.

Every day that we pretend to be someone we are not, to gain the approval of others, we slowly but surely erode away another chunk of our true identity. It’s time to escape “The Performance Trap” and become your authentic self once again. In this presentation Grant will show you how.

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Jet Xavier Back by popular demand… Jet Xavier is Australia’s leading elite performance mental skills and mindset coach in the real estate sales industry. Jet understands what it takes to be successful. He is a former heroin addicted homeless street kid from Kings Cross Sydney. Today he is a leading speaker, presenter, trainer and writer who has conducted over 2500 elite performance mental skills and mindset coaching, mentoring and training sessions with various agents and major agencies across Australia and overseas.

We have been lucky enough to have Jet Xavier speak on our stage in the past, and we cannot wait to hear what he has to say this time!

So get ready and get excited…this is going to be AWESOME! If you have any questions or need assistance, send an email to us at info@lifestyletradie.com.au or give us a call on 1800 704 822.

We cannot wait to see you there :)

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Help Your Tradies Succeed In Sales

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et’s face it, selling is hard, even for the most seasoned sales reps. And for your tradies, who you’re wanting to ‘sell’ the bar can seem especially high.

We need to arm our tradies with a few selling skills before we send them out to sales slaughter, here’s a few tactics to try.

1. Show Them How To Create Initial Value For The Customer

nervous to discuss an upsell. Help your tradies by getting then to focus on the solution and the actual value it can provide to their customer and they’ll be more than happy to put it forward.

3. Show Them The Practices That Define Success

Don’t base your tradies sales successes on revenue only. Implement some attainable goals The immediate priority is to teach your tradies to for your tradies in relation to sales that will give add initial value to a customer. Asking the right them confidence to engage in sales on a daily questions, listening to the customers needs and basis. ‘ helping them to decide which solution is right for them. The sales process is a series of steps, 4. Give Them The Sales Coaching They but getting this first one right is probably the Need most important.

Coaching is the number one way business 2. Build Conviction owners can improve the performance of their If you’re looking for a simple way to help your tradies when it comes to selling, especially when tradies muster the conviction they need to sell, it comes to new team members. have them imagine they are calling someone to tell them they’d just won the lottery. Encourage them to think about their tone, expression, and confidence when in conversation with the customer. Often tradies struggle with a sense of ‘not wanting to bother’ the customer or being

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While selling is never easy, especially for tradies and new tradies at that, there are steps you can take to ensure your staff are set up for success.

The key is providing them with the tactical, operational, and emotional support they need to get the confidence to sell.

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6 WAYS TO GET OUT OF A SLUMP M

ental blocks, or just slumps can happen to the best of us, no matter how mentally strong we are. The longer they go on, the more they can really get to you, and sometimes the more we try to get out of them, the worse we get… know what we mean?

While we can’t tell you how to solve the problem you’re faced with, we can give you some tips on how to ‘shake it off’ start the process of finding a solution.

Here are six ways to get back on track after a mental slump.

1. Recognise The Problem This is the first step you need to take when starting to solve a problem. If you’re in denial that it’s a real issue, you’re doomed. Once you’ve accepted the fact that it’s a problem you can take actionable steps to get it resolved.

2. Move Around Being stagnant is often part of the problem with a mental slump. You need to get the juices flowing again before you can start to come up with solutions.

In fact, exercise releases endorphins, which are proven to reduce stress and increase levels of happiness. Even if it’s a quick walk around the block, it’s a great way to refresh your thoughts.

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3. Shake Up Your Routine

5. Sleep On It

Routines are both good and bad. If you want to get in shape, you need to work out routinely.

When it comes to your work life, however, routines can really wear you down sometimes.

Shake up your routine, work a day out of the office, spend a day on the tools, find a way to change things up.

Mental slumps are often the result of being overworked.

The solution most people look to in this situation is, you guessed it, more work. This is the last thing you want to be doing.

4. Write It Down We can all get lost in our thoughts, especially when we’re in a mental slump. We spend so much time thinking about solutions that we forget some of the good ones. As you work through your process, you need to always write things down. Just get them on paper, in no particular order, and you’ll be able to reference them when you need them.

Your brain is tired and you need to give it a rest. If you’re in a mental slump and you’ve spent the whole night trying to find a solution, you need to shut things down and sleep on it. You’ll wake up the next day refreshed and ready to tackle the problem. In fact, you may even find the answer in your sleep.

6. Talk To Your Someone Some people think mental slumps need to be handled alone. And sometimes they’re right. However, there are times when you need to consult others. A friend or a family member, a colleague, coach… it just needs to be someone you trust and respect.

Everyone gets into a slump from time to time. Those who can quickly recognise the problem and take steps to fix it, are well ahead of the game.

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TECHY TOOLS TO HELP YOU GET MORE INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS

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nstagram is quickly becoming the social media platform of choice. To be competitive and grow your audience, trade businesses need to stay consistent, and produce quality content, and do it often.

In order to do this, you need to be able to make the process as easy as possible. And we have 10 tools to help you do just that:

1. ViralUpgrade This one is a bit of a ‘top notch’ program, where you’re assigned an actual account assistant who takes over the growth of your account. You provide them the details about your desired target audience, which the program helps you define. Your virtual assistant engages with your target, growing your following, and ultimately increasing your websites traffic and sales.

2. Hootsuite You may have used this one before for Facebook or another social media outlet. Hootsuite makes scheduling your content easy. Write captions for your posts, attach the media you wish to include and then pick dates for them to be published. It will post directly to your Instagram feed at the scheduled time. Hootsuite will also be able to give you some analytics, so you can see what’s actually working and what’s not.

3. Yotpo Consumers often post pictures on Instagram of products they have purchased or used, which can be marketing gold. Nothing is more authentic.

Yotpo is a tool that gives the brands access to these images by gathering relevant posts, as well as provides a ‘Shop Now’ feature on Instagram, allowing users to easily access products they see in their feed. With Yotpo, businesses are able to make their Instagram accounts more marketable, which has always been a problem for many.

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8. Wordswag 4. Sprout Social Businesses on Instagram often gauge their success on the platform based on their likes, comments and followers. Sprout Social allows a business to dive into more useful data. The app allows brands to view performance data within specific time periods and between individual posts. In addition, it allows pre-scheduling of posts, making the process of publishing consistent Instagram content much easier.

5. Iconosquare Iconosquare allows you to view detailed Instagram analytics, tracking all comments across multiple accounts, organise a library of content and schedule posts. Otherwise extracting information that is actually useful is tricky and time consuming, comments and likes are quantified, but going through hundreds, hopefully thousands of posts to find what you need is too time consuming.

6. Repost Want to share an image of your product, but want to avoid any legal stoushes? Repost solves this problem by allowing users to repost content while giving credit to the original poster. Businesses can now maximise brand awareness by re-publishing content from multiple sources.

7. Social Insight Interacting with followers on Instagram can become difficult as brands become more popular. Social Insight lets businesses schedule posts at specific times, organise and manage followers, but most importantly it allows you to monitor these follower interactions.

The tool also offers users access to indepth data analytics that can be used to analyse and adjust marketing strategies.

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On a visually driven platform like Instagram, the best way to attract attention is with eye-catching content. Wordswag is a tool that helps make content stand out by adding various typography to photos.

It’s simple to use, you just type out the text you want, tap “Save & Close” and it will give you different style options to select from. A lot of brands still manage their Instagram via a mobile device, so apps like this can be very convenient.

9. Soldsie “Link in bio” is an all-too-common phrase on Instagram. Over time, the link may change or even be removed entirely, creating confusion and preventing consumers from getting what they want.

Soldsie sends users to a custom web page showcasing content curated by the account owner. For example, ecommerce stores may link to a list of products for sale, while blogs may link to a recent popular article, it allows businesses to include another layer of relevant information in their Instagram profiles without confusing the consumer.

10. SocialRank On Instagram, diving into your followers can be a difficult task. The followers icon leads to a single-stream list of all the accounts following you. For businesses with large followings, this tab is of little use for viewing specific followers.

SocialRank has a popular follower search engine, making it easier for businesses to reach out to specific followers. Knowing who follows your brand on Instagram is key, you always need to be familiar with your customer base.

By using at least some of these apps, you will find it much easier to not only use Instagram properly, but really start to see some real value in it as part of your social media marketing strategy. Instagram is here to stay, and your trade business needs to be a part of it, that is for certain.

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MONEY = HAPPINESS OR DOES IT? We all know the old saying ‘money can’t buy happiness’. But if you know that sinking feeling of not having any money in the bank, a little money can certainly go a long way in upping your mood. Considering that not having enough money can certainly make a person miserable, we decided to have a look at the research that shows just how much money directly effects your life satisfaction and emotional well-being.

1. Optimal Income

3. There’s More To A Successful Marriage.

Believe it or not, there is actually an optimal income, and it might not be as high as you think. Research (Gallup-Healthways Having shared interests, a satisfying sex life, and sharing the household Wellbeing index) looked at two kinds of ‘happiness’: chores, all ranked higher as • Life evaluation: How people think of their life overall and, being more important factors to a • Emotional Wellbeing: How often and how strongly you successful marriage than having an felt emotions like joy, stress, sadness, anger, and affection adequate income. on a daily basis

4. Make Some Memories.

Income effects these two dimensions of happiness differently, with a higher income, comes a higher life evaluation. But while emotional well-being also rises with income, it caps at around $75,000 and doesn’t rise with any further rise in income.

There’s also mounting evidence to suggest that people get more out of their experiences than material goods.

We get more bang for our buck when we spend money on memories and 2. Earning Your Own Money. experiential purchases. They help Research also shows that people who make their own money, to create strong relationships and are much more satisfied with their lives compared to those lasting memories, all those ‘money who’ve inherited their dosh. can’t buy’ moments.

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WHEN IT COMES

TO SUCCESS,

CONFRONTATION IS KEY! Not many people like confrontation, its unpleasant and difficult. Much easier to ignore the ‘elephant in the room’ and leave things alone…

Even though it’s not an easy thing to do, when it’s done correctly, confrontation can actually go along way when it comes to success in your trade business.

Confrontation, Unfortunately, Is Sometimes Necessary: 1. Because Your Success Depends On Your ‘People’ Your workplace culture is dependent on the way people behave, your systems, and the way people communicate.

In most cases of a negative, or positive culture, people are both the problem and the solution. The people who create the negative or positive cultures are also the ones who are strong influencers, and great assets to your trade business. But when you need to confront their current behaviors, it means that it won’t be a walk in the park.

2. Confronting An Issue Provides Clarity For Everyone One thing that is essential in a healthy work environment are clear expectations.

Sometimes an employee may

Here Are 4 Ways To Confront Successfully: Confrontation Always Starts With Praise Before you jump right in all guns blazing, remember that you’re dealing with a person who has feelings. When you start with a praise, the person is much more likely to respond positively.

Be Very Clear In Your not be fully aware of them. Communication Other times, they may display behavior that is not in keeping with the workplace culture.

Clarity is essential – and while flowcharts will provide some information and direction, it is the personal touch that will always communicate best.

3. Confrontation Clears The Air Getting things out in the open, clearing the air and avoiding any underlying sub-cultures in your trade business is key to long term success. Trade business is often a smaller business, with staff working closely together.

A toxic subculture is one that grows fast.

Don’t beat around the bush and dance around the issue at hand. Be clear and to the point, otherwise it just makes it harder and confusing for everyone involved. Just call a spade a spade, and clear the air.

Give Them Direction, And Help, Not An Ultimatum Rather than saying ‘f you don’t do/change/fix this, then…’ help the person by giving them options and let them be involved in the solution. Be there for them after by following up with them and supporting them.

Always Finish With Praise

So, How Do You Confront Someone Or Something – Effectively?

When the person your confronting knows that we have theirs and the business best interests at heart, then it makes it a whole lot easier to confront them with the issue Once you’re convinces that confidently. confrontation is necessary, how do you confront in a way that Don’t be intimidated by will address the issue at hand, confrontation. Confront when all while keeping everyone’s and where necessary and see dignity well in tact? your trade business flourish!

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NON-NEWSLETTER EMAILS,

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ou might be surprised to know, that email is still on top of the list when it comes to effective marketing channels.

It is actually 40 times more effective in acquiring new customers than social media.

But, it has to be done properly.

Your emails aren’t going to get you anywhere, if the content is lame. There are definitely some interesting ways to engage your subscribers, without the use of that boring ‘Monthly Newsletter’… give some of these a try:

there’s hundreds of them.

Not only will you give your recipients a bit of a laugh, you’re pretty much guaranteed They will love this behind the that your competitors won’t scenes look at what you’re be bombarding them on these working on and what you’re days too. achieving. You can also share clients successes, completed 3. Worthwhile Discounts jobs, big wins, your own trade Emphasis on the worthwhile business successes with your part. If you can’t send anything subscribers. desirable, then to be honest, don’t send anything at all. 5% 2. Holiday-Themed discounts and lame giveaways Emails do more to annoy the reader It’s easy to send discounts than anything else. Offer up and newsletters around the something good, and put a big holidays like Christmas timeframe on it to create a and Easter. But, how about sense of urgency. E.g. 48hours using some smaller lesser only.

known days to get the attention of your recipients, National Tradies Day, Ginger Doing a big new build and its Appreciation Day, International coming along nicely? Share it Chocolate Appreciation day… via email with your subscribers.

1. Progress Updates

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4. Content Roundups You’re spending the time to create content that you presume will be valuable to

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NON-NE W SLE T T ER EM AIL S, AND W H Y YOU NEED T O BE SENDING T HEM.

your audiences, but are you actually sharing it with the people who need it most? Roundups are easy and helpful and will get your content more mileage. A round up of your Instagram images, your Facebook and blog posts with links can go a long way.

site or your social pages will be visiting them on the regular, and seeing your posts. You never know what a long-time reader will be most excited 5. Advice and Resources about or where there’s room You don’t have to give away free products to entice your for an upsell. subscribers to open your emails, but something of perceived 7. Personal Notes value definitely helps. The key is to offer something for free that your target audience will find useful. Hints and tips, maintenance HTML email isn’t always the ideas, and how-to videos can all be sent via email. answer, it can make people feel like just a number… and with 6. Product and Service Updates hundreds of emails being sent Got a new feature or service offering? Share it via email. Don’t get every hour, it’s important to into the habit of assuming that people already subscribed to your make your subscribers feel like a person, and an important one at that. Sometimes, a simple text email, is all they need to feel the love.

8. Company Milestones If you’ve managed to build relationships with your email subscribers, they’ll be more than happy to know what’s happening with your trade business. Your successes are their successes and vice versa.

Share milestones, achievements, and improvements openly, and you’ll make your followers feel more like friends.

9. Surveys Everyone wants their voice to be heard. Asking for feedback is a quick way to make your subscribers feel valued and to improve your products or processes. You can’t fix what you don’t know is broken.

Next time you’re sending an email to your subscribers, try and think outside the square.

Give your subscribers a reason to stay, and keep that ‘unsubscribe’ button at bay.

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he Next Level Tradie event was created after thousands of conversations with trade business owners who are struggling with the same challenges…

• Too many tradies hit an income ceiling and never make the kind of money that they are capable of. It’s time to earn what you are worth.

• Most tradies think that working harder and longer will reap rewards – But the reality is, this is not the case.

It’s time to work smarter.

• So many tradies say they are ‘stuck in a rut’ but aren’t sure what to do to get out of it. It’s the BUSINESS MODEL that needs to change.

We’ve been asked ‘how did you win the title of #1 Trade Business In Australia 2015’ for your trade business? We’re going to share with you EXACTLY what we have done to streamline our business and transform our life. No secrets.

For the last 9 years we’ve been working with a select group of trade business owners across many different trades, taking them from Chaos to Control.

We’re going to share the very best of what is working for them at the Next Level Tradie Live Event.

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At the Future Tradie Event, You Will Learn To… • Master Your Money and Maximise Profit • Transform Your Team To Save Time & Money • Attract A Grade Customers and Keep Them For Life • Automate, Systemise and Streamline your Trade Business

So Who Should Come To The Next Level Tradie Live Event?

It’s simple really…any trade business owner who • Has ever wanted ‘more’ • Doesn’t believe they should settle for average results • Are winners, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and the determination to match.

If you’re serious about transforming your trade business to take it to another level then THIS is your moment of truth.

This is your life, your decision.

Make the right one.

Event Dates BRISBANE Novotel Brisbane 07 200 Creek Street Brisbane City AUG MELBOURNE Pullman Albert Park 08 65 Queens Road Albert Park AUG SYDNEY Novotel Sydney Parramatta 14 350 Church Street Parramatta AUG PERTH Novotel Perth 21 221 Adelaide Terrace Perth AUG ADELAIDE The Playford Adelaide MGallery 22 120 North Terrace Adelaide AUG

Go to www.nextleveltradie.com.au/mag now to claim your FREE spot now!

A Special Thanks To Our Partners…

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outube, if used properly can be an amazing, low cost, marketing tool for your trade business. If you haven’t used it before, or feel like your content is getting a bit tired, these 6 ideas for using YouTube just might help you to establish YouTube as part of your overall online marketing strategy.

1. Showcase Customer Testimonials

2. Present A Call To Action Because YouTube allows you to speak directly to your audience, you can use your videos to encourage viewers to take a specific action after watching your video. A video’s call to action is a request for people to take an immediate action, such as visit your website, “like” the video, subscribe to your YouTube channel, call a tollfree phone number, send someone an email, share the video’s link with their friends, make a donation or make a purchase.

3. Create Mindless If you’ve been in your trade Entertainment, But Don’t business for a little while Forget The Product and have earned the respect Placement. of many loyal customers or clients, which we’re sure you have… using a YouTube video to showcase some of these people or companies providing real testimonials for your products/service can be a really effective (and low-cost) promotional and sales tool.

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Many people turn to YouTube for entertainment, looking for those funny, whimsical and outrageous videos. You or your company can jump on this bandwagon and produce videos that offer mindless entertainment but, at the same time, include

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subtle product placements, branding or marketing messages about your company or its products within the videos. For this type of video, creativity is essential, as what you post needs to be unique, engaging, funny and entertaining.

4. Promote Or Share Highlights From An Event Sharing videos shot at recently visited events, means you have the opportunity to share it with the world. Showcasing short footage or highlights from a previous event can also generate interest in not just the event, but your business too.

5. Broadcast (Stream) A Live Event Via YouTube In addition to filming an event, editing and shortening the video, and then publishing it on YouTube via your company’s branded YouTube channel, it’s possible to broadcast live via YouTube Live or on other social media platforms like Facebook, YouNow, Twitch.

TV, or Instagram Live. When you broadcast live, your video feed steams directly to your audience in real time. In other words, there’s no editing, no retakes and no margin for error. As events happen, your audience sees it live. Trade businesses could use live video when on a tricky jobsite, or to showcase some finished work, give a personal insight into the office… anything is possible.

6. Pay To Have Your Products & Services Featured In Videos Produced By Popular YouTubers Instead of producing your own video content, promoting that content, and using the time, manpower and financial resources required to promote your videos and build an audience, one option that’s becoming increasingly popular is to pay an established YouTuber with a large following to incorporate placements (for your products/services) into their video content.

What you’ll discover is that the subscribers to popular YouTubers are extremely loyal.

So, when one of these YouTubers endorses a product, their subscribers are often very willing to try it out.

Most YouTubers appeal to a specific demographic. So, there’s bound to be someone out there that would work for your trade business. Placement is a quick and easy way to promote your trade business and have it seen by many targeted viewers.

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Launching Into Loyalty

Saying no to a client can be difficult, but it’s also extremely important… we look at when it’s the right time to say ‘No’ and how to do it properly.

Why your trade business should have a loyalty program, and how it will benefit your business in many different ways.

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